Paul Ansorge
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 5 Aug
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Like it's just, it's so beautiful and poetic and all that time, like one of the things about the fact that it is anachronistic to have an international 21st century sport that loads of people care about that last five days, that's nuts.
And that's five full days, by the way, that's not like two hours of play a day, that's seven hours of play a day or whatever it is.
is it's actually really nice to have that anachronism.
It's really nice to have this thing that's happening.
So if you've got an hour-long meeting, you dip out of the meeting at the end, you see what's happened in the last hour, and then when you get home, maybe you can watch an hour of uninterrupted play.
Nobody or very few people are sitting watching every ball for five days.
The thing's kind of living and building over five days.
I love it anyway, obviously, as you can tell.
I'm so frustrated.
I've just seen the time.
I can't believe how much time's gone because I had so many questions to ask you about what it was like to watch France as a team that didn't care about a person that wasn't that invested in them.
Just because... I think I'm invested.
Yeah, okay.
That's fair.
I just want to very briefly to answer a question that I was just planning to talk to you about, not a question you've actually asked me, but which is...
that France team during this World Cup is the most, to use a stadioism, catfished I've ever been by a team because that looked like it might be the best international team of all time for a period of time during that tournament.
They were, the interplay between that front four and then the fact that, like, they were, the,
to use an American sports term, the bench strength behind that front four was just absolutely like nothing I'd ever seen in international football.
And finally Deschamps kind of let go of the kind of weirdly controlling Giroud-focused play that had been the kind of, you know, defined the Deschamps era in so many ways.
And Alissé just looked...
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